Oh Boy....

[Keith Powell]

Nowhere in my posting did I say that SUSE was better than Ubuntu. Please read 
it again! As I said, "I am in no way either boosting these two distros or 
degrading Ubuntu.

The point of my posting,  was that I thought it a bit unfair to compare an old 
version of any distro with a new one. It would be the same if a new version 
of another distro could, hypothetically, be compared with an 18 month old 
version of Ubuntu.

I have made my point and will say no more on the matter.

On Wednesday 13 Apr 2005 12:16, audriusb at homelan.lt wrote:
> Quoting Keith Powell <keith at keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk>:
>
> There is no need for advocate: I am able to answer myself. I was working
>    1) SuSE - this was my first Linux,
>    2) RedHat - the ccompany, where I got a work was using this,
>    3) Mandrake, Debian, Fedora and UBUNTU - I was looking for free
> distribution after RedHat became commercial.
> I found that all of them have their strong and week features. Differences
> are minor and are related to system management.
> After I spent about 4 months I studying differences between RedHat and
> Debian and don't want to waste a time studying Slackware packaging system,
> FreeBSD porting system or Gentoo package management.
> You are saying that Mandrake 9.2 better than UBUNTU. Excellent - use it.
> But it is true from your standpoint only. Mandrake is clone of RedHat and
> both distributions aren't free. I am respecting the "Author" law and shall
> not use them.
>
> Gediminas Bukauskas
>
> > david wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 08:10 +0300, audriusb at homelan.lt wrote:
> > >>there are no excellent or bad Linuxes
> > >
> > > I wouldn't be too sure about that.
> > > You ever use Mandrake 9.2 ? Dreadful!
> > > SuSE 9.0? Ugh!
> > >
> > > When I compare the experience I had with those two as compared to
> > > Ubuntu I feel quite happy in saying some distro's are great and other
> > > just suck.
> > >
> > > nux
> >
> > David,
> >
> > With respect, I don't think your comparisons are very fair.
> >
> > You are comparing the latest Ubuntu with versions of two other
> > distributions which are at least 18 months old.
> >
> > Would it not have been fairer to have compared this distro with the
> > latest Mandrake and SUSE ones? I am in no way either boosting these two
> > distros or degrading Ubuntu, just feeling that the playing field is not
> > very level.
> >
> > To mis-quote a well-known political saying, "Eighteen months is a long
> > time in Linux!"
> >